“It was Halloween 2014, and I had been watching slaughterhouse videos all morning,” writes King-Sonnen. “I didn’t know I was going down the vegan rabbit hole.” She and her husband were on their cattle ranch in Texas, and her sudden “awakening” had her questioning the morality of sending cattle off to be killed at a sale barn. She writes, “I was accustomed to violence as a food group because, for generations, I was taught by my forefathers that it was normal. And it is normal, it’s everywhere, but does that make it right?” She started to see the cattle as individuals with souls. After taking in a calf she dubbed Rowdy Girl, she recognized the horrors of the cattle industry. Thus, she began her vegan journey and the conversion of their cattle ranch to a vegan farm sanctuary. While some readers will gain perspective or self-assurance from a memoir of this kind, the book will resonate most with the vegan-curious. If you’re looking for insight into the thought processes and story of a vegan (and religious) person, then this is a great book to dip into as you walk through King-Sonnen’s transition and future activism with the vegan farm sanctuary. She writes, “I came to the conclusion that there will be no peace on earth, without peace in our bellies.” Her passion just might convert a few readers, as when she argues, “We are not here to beg for scraps of kindness from a system that feeds on suffering and heartbreak. We are here to burn the whole damn lie down and plant something honest in its place.”